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On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:40:19AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> Here are some alternatives you don't seem to have considered:
[...]
> my Str sub greeting (Str $person) is export {
> "Hello, $person";
> }
>
> my Str
> sub greeting (Str $person) is export {
> "Hello, $person";
> }
Do these declare the subroutine in the lexical scope only?
> And I try to believe six foolish consistencies before breakfast each day. :-)
I'm glad you do! I value consistency a lot, but I do realise one has to
choose the _right_ consistencies.
Anyway, thanks for replying. I think I can live with the issue. :) It seems to
center on the fact that Perl 6 allows you to put a lot of stuff into the
signature. This isn't helped much by any potential Haskell-style pattern
matching, at least not in a way I can see.
I still do want to match against constants in the signature, however:
sub foo ( 0 ) { ... }
sub foo ( $bar ) { ... }
So I'm very confused about my opinion on the issue of pattern matching..
> Larry
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